Those who have the supreme power of making laws in England, France, or Holland, are to an Indian, but like the rest of the world, men without authority: and therefore, if by the law of nature every man hath not a power to punish offences against it, as he soberly judges the case to require, I see not how the magistrates of any community can punish an alien of another country; since, in reference to him, they can have no more power than what every man naturally may have over another.
John Locke: The Second Treatise Of Civil Government
good ol' philosophy 110, right?
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